Department of History and Social Studies Colleagues
Dr Károly Szerencsés
Academic Focus: history of Hungary in the second half of the 20th century
Prof Dr Irén Simándi
Academic Focus: 20th-century Hungarian history, political history, media history
Dr Márton Kálnoki-Gyöngyössy
Academic Focus: history of collections, medieval and early modern monetary history, medieval numismatics, museology
Kalnoki-Gyongyossy.Marton@uni-nke.hu
Dr Zoltán Dévavári
Academic Focus: 20th-century Hungarian history, history of Hungarians in the southern regions, history of the regime change, history of Hungarian emigration
Dr Éva Ványi
Academic Focus: 20th-century political history, civic education, political science, political and governmental elite studies, the relationship between politics and public administration, governmental decision-making
Dr Dániel István Bajnok
Academic Focus: Attic oratory, the late period of Athenian democracy, magical traditions of classical antiquity
Dr Örs Kovács
Academic Focus: post-1945 French history, the Cold War, methodology of history education
Dr Mihály Nánay
Academic Focus: history of Hungary during the world wars, the Hungarian branch of the Habsburg Dynasty, the practice of history education
Dr Géza Gecse
Academic Focus: the policy of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Russian Empire 1774 – 1918, the first stage of the formation of the bipolar system in Europe 1918 – 1945, the bipolar system and the Cold War in Europe 1945-1992, history of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation 1917-2021, the formation of the Novorossiya concept and the special military operation in the Russian-Ukrainian war 2022-2024
Dr Dániel Márk Seres
Academic Focus: Greek rhetoric, Greek epigraphy, Latin linguistics
Dr Balázs Rigó
Academic Focus: 20th-century Hungarian sports history, teaching local history, Christian political thought in the first half of the 20th century
Dr Kálmán Árpád Kovács
Academic Focus: history of modern universal and Hungarian church policy systems, cultural history of the human–environment relationship
Kovacs.Kalman.Arpad@uni-nke.hu
Dr Éva Teiszler
Academic Focus: medieval Hungarian history, auxiliary sciences of history
András Berta
Academic Focus: 16th–17th century Hungarian history, cultural history, history of everyday life
Dr Kristóf Heil
Academic Focus: modern Hungarian history and legal history, 19th-century Hungarian political and social history
Heil.Kristof.Mihaly@uni-nke.hu
Dr Artúr Köő
Academic Focus: Hungarian nationality policy during the Dualist Era, the road to Trianon, the Treaty of Trianon and its consequences, Romanian–Hungarian relations in the 19th–20th centuries
Dr Katalin Földvári
Academic Focus: Greek Catholic church history, historical ethnography, the cult of the original icon of Pócs in Austria (17th–21st centuries), Austrian places of pilgrimage in the Habsburg Empire, the history and ethnography of Máriapócs, the history of the Order of Saint Basil the Great
Dr Zoltán Hegedüs
Academic Focus: general history of the 19th and 20th centuries, 20th century history of Great Britain, history of political campaigns